Chilli and Salt

by Bahen & Co, Margaret River

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Chilli and Salt is a 75 g bar of dark chocolate from Bahen & Co that mixes flame-roasted chilli into the maker's House Blend chocolate and finishes it with a dusting of flaked sea salt. The maker's ingredient list is short: cocoa beans, raw sugar, roasted chilli and flake salt. The maker says the combination of chilli and chocolate was perfected by the ancient Aztecs.

House Blend is the maker's own mix of single-plantation cacaos, stone-ground to a house style. If you want to taste that base without the chilli, House Blend 70% Cacao and House Blend 88% Cacao use the same two plain ingredients. For a flavoured bar without heat, Almond & Sea Salt 75% uses almonds and olive oil. The maker does not rate the heat of the chilli, so think of it as a flavoured bar rather than a hot one.

Made by Bahen & Co, a bean-to-bar maker on the family farm at Margaret River. The maker says it buys cacao directly from growers, with no middleman. Its own process page describes the steps: beans are fermented in wooden boxes, dried in the sun, sorted by hand and roasted low and slow before being cracked and winnowed, then stone-ground with sugar and polished in a conche.

Seeing it in person

Bahen & Co publishes no shop or farm visit details. Its contact page gives only a postal address in Margaret River (checked 13 October 2026).

Delivery

Bahen & Co posts within Australia by Express Australia Post and says to allow 3 to 7 working days. It does not send orders on Fridays, so chocolate is not left in a depot over a weekend, and hot weather can delay delivery (shipping page, checked 13 October 2026). It offers free postage above a set order value and a handwritten gift note at checkout.

Questions

What is in Chilli and Salt?
Cocoa beans, raw sugar, roasted chilli and flake salt, according to the maker's ingredient list.

Does it contain nuts?
The ingredient list names none, but check the maker's label for allergen details.

Good to know

  • Stone-ground, bean-to-bar dark chocolate with flame-roasted chilli and flaked sea salt
  • 75g bar
  • Ingredients: cocoa beans, raw sugar, roasted chilli, flake salt
  • Made on the Bahen family farm, Margaret River, Western Australia

Facts checked by Shane Simmons from Bahen & Co's website on 13 October 2026. Sources: Bahen & Co product page, process page and shipping page.

About Bahen & Co

Margaret River

Jacqui and Josh Bahen make stone-ground, bean-to-bar chocolate on the family farm in Margaret River, using machines from around 1910 and the 1930s.

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